President Clinton a class act and a real statesman I am impressed with his loyalty. He is spot on, the republicans and Bush started two unnecessary wars and wrecked the nation and world's economy's. Obama has done a terrific job considering the had he inherited. He got bin laden and Bush never did find WMD . .

10:00 pm June 4, 2012

Nafta Loser wrote:

Wake me up when it gets good.....zzzzzz snore

10:06 pm June 4, 2012

RogerB34 wrote:

"Their economic policy is austerity and unemployment now, and then a long term budget that would explode the debt when the economy recovers so the interest rates would be so high, nobody would be able to do anything,” Mr. Clinton said ..."
????
Austerity + unemployment + long term budget debt explosion = economuy recovers - interest rates so high nobody would be able to do any thing.
Beam me up Scotty!

10:18 pm June 4, 2012

is_this_the_wsj_or_fox_news wrote:

Welcome to the Fox Street Journal.

12:50 am June 5, 2012

Mr. Fubo wrote:

“More than 200,000 Germans turned out in Berlin on July 24 [2008] to hear a carefully stage-managed Barack Obama tell them exactly what they wanted to hear: If he becomes US president, America will become a whole lot more like Europe.”

Sure hope Clinton at least got a few more porn stars for his troubles.

7:13 am June 5, 2012

denise wrote:

Wonder what Obama's OWS groupies thought about the "site" for his fundraiser????

Yup, he is playing both ends of the spectrum, pocketing money on one end, and support on the other from naive people who evidently are not looking at any news past MSNBC.
If he trys to conceal and downplay his something as simple as his lucritive Wall Street ties, while claiming to support the other end of the spectrum, the angry law breaking anti-Wall Street crowd, you can't believe this guy about anything. Well, we should have known that after the Reverend Wright thingy and after the fact was revealed that he represented himself in a published literary bio as born in Kenya, raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.
What a politician.

7:20 am June 5, 2012

denise wrote:

Someone needs to email this story to heads of OWS chapters everywhere. LOL
How violated they would feel.

The fundraiser was held in the home of Lasry, the billionaire, who founded hedge fund Avenue Capital Group.

apparently the democrat strategy is accusing gop of all the things the dems themselves are doing. this is what happens when u elect lowlife to the highest office in the land. lies, slight of hand, tricks, cover-ups, theft and sleaze. it's all they know.

10:13 am June 5, 2012

Amazed wrote:

Clinton's believability has officially hit bottom. Is it really possible that he believes Obama has delivered jobs and "long term budget restraint"?

10:26 am June 5, 2012

What Is IS again Clinton? wrote:

If taking a tougher stand on illegals IS considered an economic policy, then Romney is indeed heading toward the adoption of Europeans’ stricter standards -- as we should.

However, the comparisons stop there, as its Obama who has taken the lead in seeking to adopt Europe’s ruinous economic policies, policies that are at the heart of its troubles today and Clinton knows it.

For those who forget or deny them they included: excessive govt spending, regulations and economic control, an ever tightening nanny state, excessive and costly cradle to grave social net, debts to GDP that well exceed our own, disappearing defense forces, high energy costs, etc. Let’s not forget how European VAT’s and other tax policies already allow govts to keep a larger share of monies than those who actually earn it all of which gives European govts little room to tax their people even more to dig out of its mess.

Romney abhors all and for good reason, but not Obama as he’s pointed this nation well toward that mess and that’s exactly why this nation needs to point him toward the exit in November.

11:03 am June 5, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

@9:10

Right, and the GOP are the choirboys of politics. Get real.

11:13 am June 5, 2012

MikeH wrote:

RINO Romney caught in the act!

11:25 am June 5, 2012

Jimmy Buffet wrote:

Regarding Romney, I have never seen so many flip-flops in my life. Not even at any of my concerts. If you don't like Mitt's policies, stick around. They'll change.

11:44 am June 5, 2012

Double Standards by Some Laughable wrote:

Buffett – If you’re upset at Mitt’s alleged flips, then does that mean you’re also equally concerned about Obama’s constantly “evolving” views, opinions and direction?

12:17 pm June 5, 2012

Lost shaker of salt wrote:

Hey Jimmy, I found your shaker and someone who flip-flops more than Mitt.

He lives at 1600 Pennsylvannia Avenue.

12:21 pm June 5, 2012

denise wrote:

Yep, super pacs, gay marriage, Bush tax cuts, no pork in the stimulus, military and unilateralism, gitmo, nasa, military tribunals, debt ceiling, cutting the deficit in half. LOL, LOL, said stimulus was shovel ready, then it wasn't, sunlight and transparency, patriot act, lobbyists in his White House, LOL LOL...and so much more that he was for before he was against or against before he was for.

“The Romney plan is going to slow down the economy, worsen the jobs deficit and significantly increase the likelihood of a recession,” Stiglitz told Bloomberg.

He went on to say that President Obama "recognizes the need to stimulate the economy” and sees income inequality as a “significant problem,” while Romney does not.

During other stops on the promotional tour for his new book, “The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future,” Stiglitz touched on income inequality, CEO pay and other economic issues, but was particularly critical of austerity measures that cut government spending while raising taxes.

“No large economy has ever recovered from recession through austerity,” Stiglitz warned during an interview Bloomberg reporter Betty Liu.

A number of recent studies lend support to this view. Both the IMF and United Nations released studies last September that found austerity can have negative effects on the economy. The IMF reported that austerity hurts incomes and worsens long-term unemployment, while a United Nations study warned that nations' continued pursuit of austerity could result in a “permanent recession.” More recently, the International Labor Organization found that worldwide "austerity has not produced more economic growth."

4:46 pm June 5, 2012

Boehner wrote:

Those are just facts.

9:29 pm June 8, 2012

Notakeyensian wrote:

Here come the Keyensians again! They're going to re-educate us all on how to play Russian Roulette Economics and try to convince us that we didn't borrow and spend enough last time. And the time before that...and the time before that...and the time before that...and the time before that...and the time before that...and the time before that...and the time before that...and the time before that. But next time will be different. Promise!

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